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Introduction
In the religious classroom students interact with each other in a unique way that differs from that of a normal classroom experience. The nature of a religious course fosters an environment in which students have many opportunities...

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group. For example, when a coach talks to his players about his family and that he is going to his son‘s birthday party after practice, he has expressed a fantasy.
A fantasy chain reaction is a positive and energetic response to...

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seniors selected ―expects high levels of performance from self and teammates‖ as their second most important item. Seniors do tend to be the leaders on sports teams, so it seems appropriate that they would choose an item related...

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SELF-DISCLOSURE AND COHESION IN THE RELIGIOUS CLASSROOM
A Thesis
presented to
the Faculty of the Communication Department
at Southern Utah University
In partial fulfillment
of the Requirement for the Degree
Master of Arts in Professional...

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Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca (1969) contended “that epideictic rhetoric addresses the
unquestioned values of an audience, and thus it is practiced as a method of education aimed at
displaying, amplifying, and enhancing the values that...

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want to place burdens on a child, harkening back to child labor camps of Dickens, children
want to share responsibility. In Hansen‘s (1933) Investigation of Children‘s use of money,
responsibility is a part of a child‘s...

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Furthermore, students are encouraged to share their beliefs in a variety of settings within the religious classroom. Do students feel more willing and competent to share information with just one...

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given its important role in predicting classroom outcomes (Rosenfeld &Gilbert, 1989, p. 299).” One of the processes or ends of self-disclosure is liking. Cozby (1972) suggests that people like most...

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this in mind, Stokes, Fuehrer, & Childs also found that “increased risk taking leads to greater cohesion” (p. 65). This implies a curvilinear relation between cohesion and risk-taking when a wide...

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through content analysis, self-report and unobtrusive measures of small groups, that member self-disclose when a group cohesion stage had formed” (p. 2). Santarsiero, Baker, & McGee (1995), also...

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positive disclosures, perceived as honest on the part of the individual but not as honest when offered by others, are associated with high cohesion (p.298).
With the objectives of understanding the...

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Willingness to Communicate and Self-Perceived Competence
There are many reasons why a student would choose to self-disclose or not self-disclose in the religious classroom. Many students are simply...

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skill” (McCrosky, 1997, p. 104). What is the application in the religious classroom? As students disclose in the classroom in what setting are they more willing and competent to self-disclose...

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Chapter 2-Method
During the last five decades significant research has been done on the importance and relationship of self-disclosure and cohesion. As students in a religious classroom setting...

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Participants
The participants (n= 96) were high school students of religious seminaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a rural conservative area in a city in southern Utah....

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Instruments
Each student in the selected classes was given four instruments to complete. These instruments were combined into one document to facilitate the taking of the survey. The instrument...

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Theoretical Perspective
Self-Disclosure
In order to understand this relationship within the religious classroom, a review of the literature is appropriate. Sidney M. Jourard (1971), one of the pioneer...